Last Updated: April 3, 2023

This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) serves to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of the information we receive when you access and use our website (our “Site”), sign up for our newsletter or access and use such other subscriptions and services that may be provided by us from time to time (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is a legally binding agreement between Squares (“Squares,” “we,” “our” or “us”) and you (and your employer or an entity if you are acting on their behalf, “you” or “your”) as the user of the Services. By using the Services, you hereby warrant and represent that (i) you have read, understand and agree to this Privacy Policy, and (ii) if you are acting on behalf of your employer or an entity, you have the authority to accept and agree to this Privacy Policy. PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Site and by revising the date at the top of this policy. Your use of the Services following any such notice will signify and constitute your agreement to and acceptance of such revised Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

SECTION 1: WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.

When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

Email Marketing

With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates. We will ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to say no when you sign up for marketing emails. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf. At any time, you may opt-out of these emails by unsubscribing by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. If you are having difficulties unsubscribing or are still receiving marketing emails when you do not want to, please email info@squaresbakes.com so we can remove you from the email list.

SECTION 2: CONSENT

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, request a refund, or sign-up for email marketing, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

We keep your data on your behalf and for your benefit. You can correct your name and e-mail address that we have on file by e-mailing us at info@squaresbakes.com, which you may also contact for further assistance and questions regarding this Privacy Policy. If you request us to delete your Personal Information, we will delete such Personal Information within seven (7) business days. We may decline to process change or deletion requests that we deem to be unreasonable, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or as may be required by law.

Withdrawing Consent

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at info@squaresbakes.com. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive communications from us, please follow any unsubscribe instructions that may be provided on our Site or in our communications to you. Please note that we may use your Personal Information to contact you with important notifications, such as changes to our terms, conditions and policies; you may not opt out of these notifications. Please also note that we may continue to use Your Information for statistical or other purposes as we see fit after you unsubscribe from any communications and/or terminate your use of the Services.

SECTION 3: DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service. We may disclose any of Your Information to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to: (1) comply with a legal requirement or process, including, but not limited to, civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or other compulsory disclosures; (2) enforce our Privacy Policy or Terms and Conditions; (3) respond to claims of a violation of the rights of third parties; (4) respond to user comments or service inquiries; (5) protect our rights, property, or safety and the rights, property and safety of our users or the public; or (6) prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally actionable. However, Squares will endeavor only to disclose information requested via a valid legal process, and will endeavor to notify any user about whom we have disclosed information if possible.

SECTION 4: COLLECTION OF INFORMATION & SQUARESPACE

Our Site is hosted by Squarespace. Personal Information (as defined below) hosted by or through Squarespace is subject to their privacy policy which may or may not contain terms as protective as this Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you are agreeing to be bound by Squarespace’s privacy policy, which can be found at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

Information Collection

 For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name and e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data.

Personal Information We Collect

When you interact with us, we collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide. For example, when you sign up for our newsletter or other e-mail lists or otherwise use certain aspects of our Services, we may ask you to provide information such as your name and e-mail address. We will ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to say no when you sign up for marketing emails. You can choose not to provide any information that is requested of you by us. However, this may limit your ability to use our Services.

When you interact with us to buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your billing and shipping address, details relating to your purchase (for example, your brownie flavor), purchase amount, email address, and name. We also share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. You can choose not to provide any information that is requested of you by us. However, this may limit your ability to use our Services.

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. The data may include your name, email, delivery address, order information, method of requested payment, and how you discovered us. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Drive for storage.

In addition to collecting information on our Site, we may collect information from you when you communicate with us via e-mail. You can choose not to provide any information that is requested of you by us. However, this may limit your ability to use our Services.

By providing your email, you may receive messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that you’ve created a customer account, your customer account password has been reset or updated, you’ve made a purchase, your order has been confirmed, or your order has shipped. It is not possible to unsubscribe from these specific messages. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Non-Personal Information

We and/or our third-party service providers may also collect information in a form that does not personally identify you (“Non-Personal Information”). Non-Personal Information can include certain Personal Information that has been de-identified; that is, information that has been rendered anonymous. We and/or our third-party service providers obtain Non-Personal Information about you from information that you provide us, either separately or together with your Personal Information. We also use cookies and other technologies to passively collect Non-Personal Information as described below.

In this Privacy Policy, we refer to all information collected from or about you, including Personal Information and Non-Personal Information, as “Your Information.”

Payment Information Collected

If you use a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Squarespace stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Standard Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted from Squarespace.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Non-Personal Information Automatically Collected

We and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies, now and hereafter devised, that automatically record certain usage information. When accessing our Site, Squarespace may log your IP address, access URL, time of access, geographic location, browser type, network type, device type, and referral URL in order to provide us with internal information regarding Site traffic statistics. This information may also be used to identify users who are using our Site for spam or other activity that is deemed in conflict with our Terms of Service. Otherwise, this information is used in the aggregate, and is never linked back to any Personal Information. Squarespace needs the data to run this Site, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Cookies and Other Technologies We Use

Squarespace and our other service providers may use cookies (both session cookies and persistent cookies). Cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. They are used to analyze trends, administer our Site, track your movements around our Site, better understand how you interact with our Site, determine interest in particular content and monitor aggregate usage by visitors and online traffic routing. The functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. The analytics and performance cookies are used on this Site only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This Site collects personal data to power our site analytics, including information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis. You may be able to instruct your browser, by changing its option, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the online services you visit. You may also remove persistent cookies by following your web browser’s help file directions. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of our Site or all functionality of our Site.

Squarespace and our other service providers may also use “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFs,” or similar means in connection with our Site and HTML-formatted e-mail messages to, among other things, track the actions of users, to determine the success of marketing campaigns and to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage and response rates. This information is collected anonymously, in a manner that does not personally identify you. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.

SECTION 5: THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Payment Information

Certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. Your payment information may be processed via 3rd party eCommerce Payment Processors such as Square, Stripe, or Venmo. Once you leave our Site or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy. Your complete payment information is transferred by Squarespace to these eCommerce Payment Processors that abide by their own terms and policies that are linked below. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

Venmo Privacy Policy Square Privacy Policy Stripe Privacy Policy 

Fonts and Website Functionality

This Site serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, such as information about your browser, network, or device; information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it, and your IP address.

Links

Certain links on our site may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

Google Drive

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Drive for storage.

SECTION 6: SECURITY
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards

SECTION 7: AGE OF CONSENT

Squares does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to use the Services. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at info@squaresbakes.com. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

SECTION 8: CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@squaresbakes.com.